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  1. welcome and enjoy your new car. these cars are great and they will go just about anywhere. peace tim
  2. id like something that has been pre programed and already has the connectors ill need for quick and painless install. i can wire stuff, but i am not good enough to wire up a new computer, that and i cant really solder well enough to be reliable. that and i dont want to try soldering to a componant board.
  3. re wiring the car isnt really that hard, i had to rewire my rx when i got it, i had to pull out what remained of the original harness and replace the whole front end wiring harness. the only thing that was hard was getting the harness throught the firewall under the dash, and that was cause i am not the smallest person out htere. if you get acomplete harness, you just get it through the firewall and every thing will line up where it needs to go. as for the cross member, youll need the turbo unit due to the fact that hte turbo exhaust manifold passes over it instead of under like the n/a manifold. i say that you should try for it, its fun and a great learning experiance and you get to know your car even more, you get closer to it.
  4. mine ran fine without it, the only thing that didnt work cause of it not being hooked up was the boost light.
  5. maybe we can get together, well, get someone to buy and assemble the components for us, that would cut donw on some of the costs. the other way mentiond, buying the parts and sending em to the person to build it, would cost more than my plan due to more shipping costs. we could get together with who ever builds em, tell em what we want, give em the $$ and they could order the parts and assemble it, for a price of course. sound reasonable?
  6. id prefer having the whole mega squirt and edis set up premade and ready to just "plug-in". i dont want to ahve to do any construction on it as im not the best with electriacl assembly. that and im lazy and want to be able to get all in and running in as little time as possible.
  7. styles, your ride still amazes me eddy, your rx looks sweet with the black 13's on it. ill see if i cant find a good pic of my rx with the pugs on it.
  8. if you go to pep boys or something like that, they have a maf adaptor in their "performance" section as well as t he universal cone filters, you will be able to come up with just about everything you need for like $40.
  9. i have 205/50/15 tires on my rx, granted i need to get fender flairs to cover the tires. they stick out about an ince in the front and a little less in the rear. i have em on 15" alloy pugs, which explains the offset and the tires sticking out on the sides. but it looks good and handles great. and 205/50/15 is just about the same as the stock tires in terms of diameter, just wider and lower profile. if you want to find out what will fir, check this out. http://www.eunos.com/tirecalc/tirecalcold.html peace tim
  10. i can survive without a/c, not that i enjoy the heat, but i can survive. granted, today is hot enough that i dont want to even go drive around town like i do when im bored. its around 97* as of like 10 minutes ago when i was out. now i remember why i like fall weather. as for the voltage drop, its most likely because the compressor's electromagnet is trying to engage the the pully to run the compressor.
  11. who needs a/c, neither of my cars have it, the rx doesnt even have the pump, lines, or anything from the stock a/c set up. just roll the windows down and drive fast, youll be happy that way.
  12. i remember replacing that hose. took a lot of patients, time and profanity. the hardest part is getting the hose to slide securely ove r the fitting under the manifold, then getting th clamp over it. and yes, needle nose pliers are your friend.
  13. ok, this is nuts, all you have to do for the coil is go to a store that carries universal perfromance parts, 9 outta 10 will have msd blaster coils, the work fine with the turbo cars.. and for plug wires, get the accel 8mm universal wire set, you have to cut em to length, but they are a nice set of wires and come in sets of 8 so you don have to worry about finding more wires for your next tune up. as for the ditsy cap, that is a hard part to get from a parts store. by the way, that blaster coil on ebay is going for $10 more than retail. the accell wires are like $30 or 35 for a box.
  14. its the seals on the tail lights, ive seen it in a few wagons when i used to work at a garage. you have to pull the lights out, completely remove the old seals, which is no easy task due to the stickiness of the material, replace the adhesive seal stuff and press back into the hole. you should be able to find the seal maker stuff at any parts store.
  15. try cleaning the maf sensor to help with the hesitation, im not sure of what else to check though as for lighting, look into hell driving lights or piaa driving lights. hella and piaa are sweet lighting systems, i just wish i had the money to put into proper lighting
  16. check the intake plumbing and breather hoses for oil in em, im not talking caked on old oil, but somewhat fresh wet oil. sounds like my last engine when i blew a piston ring. check all the engine fluids and try to do a compression test if you can.
  17. hmmm, you think maybe a cone filter might help out a little bit on the times your getting? i know you said that youve taken out hte plastic elbow from the stock box and done a k&n filter, but i wonder if maybe a cone filter would flow better.
  18. thanks for that, i might go for em if i get one of the jobs im after. but $104 each is kinda painful, but those look to be the closest to the level of the rubbe on the car now. thanks everyone. all my sources were from tuner magazines, its hard even finding 15" and 16" tires on some of those sites. now i just need to find some decent 17" rubber that i can afford for the impreza. peace tim
  19. the coopers look like they may be what i want, granted i was looking for a tire with a more sporty tread pattern like the yokos i have. it just sucks that they dont make me anymore.
  20. sounds like you unpluged the resistor for the injectors. was it a metal colored rectangular box on the front of the passenger strut?
  21. thanks guys, ill look into those coopers, they look pretty good. pity yokohama doesnt make the tires i have on it now, they hook up really nice, even though they are dry rotted and worn out.
  22. ive searched many a distributor and come up empty. i am looking for high performance tires for my stock rims on the rx. i am trying to find 205/65/13 or 205/60/13 tires. right now i have a set of 7 or 8 year old yokohama avs high performance tires that are badly worn out due to age, sitting for years and me doing fwd burn outs last year;). i cant find any 13" performance tires in 205 width. well, not for less than $100. so far the only tires ive found are racing slicks for $150 each. any reccomendations? or should i just get some cheapo tires to just get it through inspection when the time comes, then just stick with my 15" pugs from then on?
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